From OXO to Kohler and Herman Miller to Target, good design is at the core of many American businesses. But after a short list of the usual suspects, and a review of the usual products, what is the state of design in America? What exactly is design, where is design’s…
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Last night, after reading the news about Steve Jobs (on my iPhone) and then getting the full story (on my iMac), I saw a 2005 clip of Jobs making a speech at Stanford. It seems like a good time to read the whole thing. *************** I am honored to be…
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Tony Bourdain winds up Season 7 of No Reservations tonight in Cajun Country and New Orleans. It’s been a great season, possibly the best since the first year or two, so I look forward to seeing where he goes, who he meets, and what the locals are eating. Hopefully there…
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A recent article in the NYT titled The Elusive Big Idea laments for a long-passed Age of Ideas. Writer Neal Gabler knows how to rub salt into our collective iPads: he believes that in our digital age, information itself has become the finish line, not the starting point; the development…
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The past two weeks have been a blessing to those who follow sports that are decidedly outside the American radar. Barcelona dominated the Champions League final, an unknown woman and the returning champion won at Roland Garros, Dartmouth took the USA 7s Collegiate Rugby Championship (on national TV, no less), and…
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